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June 30, 2021

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Showing us how it's done, here's a superfan of Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia living the life and weaving the charms with our "Divination City" t-shirt.  Thank you, A-Smo, for rocking this look and for sustaining the dream!  (P.S.  We love the spot-on impersonation of Prof. Oddfellow being surprised by a faun!)
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This image may be used as a tool to trigger an altered state of consciousness.  From Woroni, 1972.
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#impressionistic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #ghost #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The "Android Nim" TRS-80 game, from 80-U.S., 1979.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alien #android nim #computer game
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It's not a question of you being insane or anything ..."  From Starwind, 1976.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #insanity #mental illness #mental health
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #devil #pitchfork
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Old News (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1961.  See How to Spot the Loch Ness Monster Every Time.
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#vintage headline #headline #loch ness
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem's 1921 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #sororities
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #full moon #howling at the moon #savage #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #clown #sad clown #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #anthropomorphism #cat #shield #pig #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #crow #blackbird #thorns
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Montana, Missoula's 1906 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wish Fairy and Dewy Dear by Alice Ross Colver, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #the end
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Tennessee State Teachers College's 1928 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#skiing #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #costume party #costume
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "The Blue Door," by Vincent Starrett:

***
Mr. Norway again felt inclined to say "By Jove!" and said it before he could stop himself.

***
The policeman's sarcasm became more profound, a thing of weight and substance.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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June 29, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Magic as a living language?  It's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia:
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#occult #prof. oddfellow #magic words #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Grimace, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hair pulling
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Carolina Agricultural and Technical's 1971 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #tiny man #dirty dishes
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
When even counting sheep feels like another test.  From The Study Chronicle, 1944.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #insomnia #sheep #counting sheep #test anxiety
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From American University's 1928 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #peacock #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Omaha's 1929 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #illustration #bookplate #woman reading
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1936.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #hat #after the party
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1917 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #two-faced #war and peace #peace angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The Tempter of Monetary Power."  From Centenary's 1961 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #money #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #tempter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amazing Stories, 1950.
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#vintage illustration #horror #giant bug #giant insect
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Man with a Load of Mischief, by Martha Grimes:

***
"The Northants police are calling in the Yard....Wonder who they'll put on the case."
Melrose Plant yawned. "Old Swinnerton, probably."
She sat up suddenly, her glasses perched on top of her frizzy gray head like the goggles of a racing driver. "Swinnerton? You know them?"
He was sorry he had made up the name--wasn't there always a Swinnerton?

***
Melrose held the chair of French Romantic poetry at the University of London where he taught for about four months out of the year, leaving echoes of himself to reverberate for the other eight.

***
They stood now in the low, dimly lit hall...his aunt and Simon Matchett making small talk smaller.

***
"Miss Ball?"
Miss Ball nodded as if she were ecstatic to be Miss Ball.

***
[Extra syllable inflation! Even when deliberately pronouncing the name in a literal-minded fashion, I make it only five syllables.]

"And while we're on it, you pronounce Bicester-Strachan as if it had twenty syllables. It's Bister-Strawn."

[Btw, the speaker there had begun by correcting his aunt's mispronunciation of the character surname Ruthven--a name I don't recall ever encountering before. Within twenty-four hours, however, I happened upon Ruthven as the surname of an author.]

***
"Vicars always look as if they need to be dusted daily."
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1947.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #walking the dog #pet walker #blind
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
While others are sleeping, be awake.  From Mount Vernon Community College's 1967 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #asleep #1960s #vintage men #men #awake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We've always said (as of just now) that there's no point in sinning if it's not at least tri-colored.  From Top-Notch Magazine, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #sin #gemstone #gems #precious stone
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June 28, 2021

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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#ufo #prof. oddfellow #music video #alien #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The mummy is likely only a "gaunt figure" because the bandages cinch its waist.  From Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.
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#mummy #vintage illustration
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Old News (permalink)
How true these words are, even today: "Blahs devastated by musical gnome."  These techniques work for musical gnomes, too: How to Believe in Your Elf.
From The Varsity, Feb. 6, 1976.
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#gnome #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Cats walk poetry."  From Westwords, Sept. 1967.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The grim reaper as Don Quixote.  From Nebelspalter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #don quixote
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1978.
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#vintage illustration #two faced
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1931.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Kentucky's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #falling #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Lured by the night."  From East Carolina's 1970 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Psycho-Harmonial Philosophy by Peter Pearson, 1910.
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dreaming #alcoholism #human headed #alcohol #bottles
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina Wilmington's 1975 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #severed head #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mannequin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #wig
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Chicago State's 1951 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #dreaming #vintage yearbook #sleeping #yearbook #phonograph #canoe
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #dream #vintage yearbook #old book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A ghost from Guilford's 1984 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Everyone's a subject.  From Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1947.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"But she'll then come back!"  From Littleton's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #winking cat #winking animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1942.
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June 27, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Myths From Many Lands by Eva March Tappan, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #guitar #hand #musician
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Belmont Abbey's 1962 yearbook.

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#effigy #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #golden calf
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina Wilmington's 1975 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #lightbulb #electricity #vintage man #tin-foil hat
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Fairies of the Sun by Ernest Vincent Wright and illustrated by Cora M. Norman, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #chariot #illustration #Apollo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Illinois College of Optometry yearbook of 1994.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Departing for Rome."  From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #big mouth #monster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Holy Cross College's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #long hair #sea goddess #sea spirit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #occult #bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Enchanted marble busts are wont to offer a running commentary on one's reading unless they are rotated in the other direction.  From Tulane's 1967 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The charcoal pencil may be mightier than the sword.  From Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1949.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Privilege of His Company, a biography of Noel Coward by William Marchant:

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[Kenneth Tynan on John Gielgud's performance in Noel Coward's Nude with Violin]

"Sir John never acts seriously in modern dress; it is the lounging attire in which he relaxes between classical bookings, and his present performance as a simpering valet is an act of boyish mischief, carried out with extreme elegance and the general aspect of a tight, smart, walking umbrella."

***
[Said Coward]
"One night I expanded the line. 'Of George IV there is absolutely nothing to be said,' and paused, and added in a sort of stricken voice, 'except that there is nothing to be said.' It was greeted with a shout of laughter, as it was at every performance thereafter until I threw the sketch out of the show."

***
[Marchant refers to a line, "Everything smells like something else... it's so dreadfully confusing," from one of Coward's plays, and describes Noël's attitudes in that vein, and in related areas]

The lobby of the St. Regis Hotel in New York smelled to him uncomfortably like the piano department at Harrod's.  [...] In America all sirloin steaks looked like bedroom slippers to him, and if the film showing at the old Roxy movie palace was no good, one could always look away and pretend one was rather drunk at the post office at Granada. [...] Beverly Hills looked like an uncommonly bad Raoul Dufy. [...] Strangers on the street or at restaurant tables were studied carefully to determine exactly whose twins they were. If the resemblance was only partial, or limited to a single feature, it was seen to have been an exchange of some kind: "That waiter has wickedly stolen Lilli Palmer's nose," or "Whatever can have possessed poor Margaret Rutherford to lend her chin to the Princess Murat?" [...] Faces were also understood to be in a transitory state and frequently seemed to be in a dreadful rush to look like someone else or to be marking time until the right original came along who might be copied. [He said of a Truman Capote photo], "What will this face be like twenty years from now? ... At the moment it isn't so much a face as a pre-face." [...]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"An imp on cushions."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Note how demonic faces reveal themselves here.  From Montclair's 1969 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Poetry tells of inevitable revolution (but if it's inevitable, why write poetry)"  From The Varsity, March 5, 1976.
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#revolution #poetry #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mary Washington's 1964 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #weight of the world #tiny woman #basketball #women's basketball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #flower people #flowers
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June 26, 2021

Old News (permalink)
"Mental garbage."  From Lighted Pathway, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #faces #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Lord of Diamonds.  From the Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom handbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Truths Illustrated by George Owen, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #heaven #ladder
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Old News (permalink)
"Flying saucers pay a visit, but what's become of Bigfoot?"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1996.
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#ufo #bigfoot #vintage headline #headline #flying saucer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We never forget our best teachers.  "Better to wear out than to rust out!"  From Rockford's 1978 yearbook.

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#halloween #skeleton #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #classroom #blackboard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #sea monster #octopus #tentacles
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Susquehanna's 1967 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tears of Pearls Fairy Book by Alexander Chodsko, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #witch #spirits #occult
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Do not stare or look at people too much and too long."  From a teacher training guide to Navajo cultural beliefs, 1986.
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#vintage illustration #etiquette #native american #staring #1980s #taboo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Ring of light, a light for peace."  From East Carolina's 1970 yearbook.

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#peace #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #garlic
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mary Washington's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #janus #two faces #two-faced #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wyoming yearbook of 1930.
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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #star
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mouse #eek
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Toronto's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #devil #good and evil #saint #vintage yearbook #yearbook #biography
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #question mark #illustration #art
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June 25, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The "Schrödinger's Cat" paradox solved!  It's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
What to do when the lead character takes over a month off a daily TV series?  Have him chained in a coffin, unable to witness or deal with the terrors and horrors swirling around him.  That's what happens in Dark Shadows.  Our sampling of stills are from episodes 984, 989, 990, 991, 994, 995, 998.  Over twenty episodes begin by mentioning how Barnabas Collins is unaware of the frightening drama.  Yeah, we noticed!
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"Dreams and their sequels."  From Top-Notch Magazine, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #dream #daydream
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The landlord.  From The Varsity, March 3, 1976.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If you were a radio tower, which would you be?  From Nebelspalter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #radio
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
"Those Was the Days."  From Toike Oike, 1989.
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#vintage illustration #musical notes #sheet music
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #dog #fishbowl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Strange, fearsome shades from Beyond peopled the world of his mind."  From Amazing Stories, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #magick #wizard #occult
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
He's seeing bendy bottles with that idiomatic monkey on his back.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #alcoholism #alcohol #hallucination #monkey on your back #bottles
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Montana's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure #illustration #honorary society
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
The sun has six points.  This photo may be used to trigger a new insight.  From UM Amherst's 1985 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Peace's halo is made of stars.  From Nebelspalter, 1926.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 1967 yearbook.

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#effigy #vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Cats can kill."  From The Masked Detective, 1941.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Murder Follows the Muse, by Leni Bogat:

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"And where is Aruba now? Vacationing in Hawaii, I should imagine, or perhaps sailing tranquilly toward Tahiti, assuming it is capable of navigating the Panama Canal."
[Btw, that's the protagonist, one Jeremy Wadlington-Smythe, speaking.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #hand #fist #error
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Car of Coffin? Which Do You Drive? by David C. King, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #coffin #car #car accident #automobile
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Old News (permalink)
"Who's that bird in your family tree?"  From Together, 1965.  See Heirs to the Queen of Hearts: Tracing Magical Genealogy.
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#vintage illustration #genealogy #vintage headline #family tree #headline
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June 24, 2021

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're thankful for this compliment:
"I am loving your posts on Tumblr plus your description of your Blog quoting J. Paul Bogartte. This left me feeling like I had found a feast of new resources to explore in my love of words and the wonder at their power in creating new worlds...then I found your books on Amazon and your Weblog. So With all these words I am trying to say Thank You so much for sharing your truly amazing work and journey with all of us." —GrannysArt
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here is the Reward King; may rewards be yours.  From The Garden of the Little Lame Princess by Myrtle Jamison Trachsel and illustrated by L. J. Bridgman, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #reward
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It was Edward Gorey who said, "On any road may sit a toad."  If you meet a giant one today, may it offer sage advice.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #toad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1984.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Old News (permalink)
It's an enduring question.  From The Film Daily, 1922.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Basking in the eerie light.  From Guilford's 1987 yearbook.
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#strange light #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #eerie glow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1942.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #turtle
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Old News (permalink)
"Ghost still stalks the halls."  From The Varsity, March 17, 1976.
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#ghost #vintage photo #gargoyle #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #rabbit #bunny #illustration #hunted
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Old News (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1976.  See The Pencil Witch.
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#magic #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Frog King."  From Nebelspalter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #monster #frog king
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1901 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #pharmaceuticals
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #bicycle #anthropomorphism #umbrella #lampshade #glove #glove costume #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #theatre #dramatics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Irish UFO News, 1978.
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#vintage illustration #face #seagull #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #spider web #illustration #spiders
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern's 1921 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #occult #cauldron #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #strange map #1890s
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Old News (permalink)
"Spelled backwards, stressed means desserts."  From Olivet Nazarene's 1992 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #dessert #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the cover of Poems Twice Told: The Boatman and Welcoming Disaster by Jay Macpherson, 1981.
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#vintage illustration #queen #one line
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June 23, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Prof. Oddfellow roasts the immortals.
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#humor #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #stand-up #celebrity roast
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #anthropomorphism #frog
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Old News (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1980.
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#money #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From a rare book with a surprising price tag: Jeremiah the Cat by William Maurice Culp, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Centaur as dragon slayer."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #bow and arrow #centaur #dragon slayer #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1938.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spiritualism #seance
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tri-State's 1973 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#skull #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #skull and bones
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #modern art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Study Chronicle, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #moods #facial expressions #weekday #days of the week
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #death #liberty
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1924 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #deer #glowing eyes
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Howtobegood Stories by Edith Cushing Derbyshire and illustrated by Noble Ives, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #fairy boat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #full moon #cat #night #rooftop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson College's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #night owl
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #sun worship #sunrise #dawn #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #sphinx #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We, too, are a "pawn of the unseen."  From Ghost Stories, 1926.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #ghost story #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Catawba's 1934 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #japanese #vintage japan #lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#mummy #vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #tables turned #art
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June 22, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Comic Annual for 1831 by Thomas Hood, 1830.
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#vintage illustration #imp #bottle imp #gin #alcohol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dungeon Master: Perfect Guide.
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#vintage illustration #monster #eye
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Peter's Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #horse
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Guilford's 1987 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage men #men #motorcycle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown magazine, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #warthog #crying animal #boar
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Old News (permalink)
"Classically-trained ear detects self-indulgence in modern works."  From The Varsity, Oct. 31, 1975.
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#vintage headline #modernism #headline #modern music
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's bear in a gas mask wielding a giant quill pen is from Nebelspalter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pen and ink #quill pen #bear #ink #gas mask
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Planet Stories, Fall 1943.
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#vintage illustration #science fiction #monster #caveman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A sheet ghost encounter from Eastern Nazarene's 1974 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Green Pipes by Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #ladder #illustration #long tail
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Taylor's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #elephant #animals #vintage yearbook #yearbook #antlers #endpapers #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #monster #money #1930s #st. george
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #chariot #bunnies #rabbit #art
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Unicorns (permalink)
From Mansfield's 1989 yearbook.  See A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound.
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#vintage illustration #unicorn #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #skull
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"It was a year full of stress."  From Olivet Nazarene's 1992 yearbook.

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#halloween #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #stress
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bird people
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Late and Cold, by Gladys Mitchell:

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[Its] severely classical doorway, together with a symmetrical arrangement of rectangular windows, gave it an expression of slightly disparaging surprise.

***

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"And there's soul in every stroke of the pen."  From Woroni, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #writing
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June 21, 2021

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
More high weirdness from Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia:
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #video #penetralia #clockwork music #neons gone mad #michael ash sharbaugh
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn handbook.
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Hypnotized off cigarertte addiction.  From Hypnotism As It Is by Xenophon LaMotte Sage, 1900.
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#vintage photo #hypnotism #tobacco #addiction #cigarettes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The endpapers from The Fables of Aesop, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #lion #aesop #giraffe #endpapers
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Guilford's 1987 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Bigfoot is back!"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1987.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #lantern #snail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Strange Tales, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #bat #shadow #horror #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Carolina's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's giant shark sitting on a rooftop while polishing boots, smoking a cigar, and wearing a monocle is from Tirra Lirra Rhymes Old and New by Laura Richards and illustrated by Marguerite Davis, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rooftop #shark #illustration #giant shark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Guckkasten, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #owl #jester
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #angel #good and evil #1881
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  But the skeleton seems to be contemplating the question.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #lamassu #hybrid #human headed #illustration #winged bull
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
Today's giant rabbit sobbing off the side of a ship is from Der Bärenspiegel, 1928.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #ship #rabbit #bunny #crying animal #illustration #giant rabbit #crying rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elmhurst's 1978 yearbook.

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#jack-o'-lantern #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pumpkin head
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Precursors (permalink)
Nearly three decades before the story of "The Fly" was first published, there was the flea.  From Nebelspalter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #insect man #flea #illustration #insect people
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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June 20, 2021

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
We're honored that DJ Heather Perkins, on Sonoma County KOWS FM Radio, played three of our Neons Gone Mad haunted clockwork tracks: our remix of Electro Spectre's "A Different Kind of Love," our cover of Milla Jovovich's "Distant," and the "Penetralialand" theme to our celebrated web series.  
The full show is archived here, with our set beginning at 28:20 (snippet player below).  Thank you, DJ Heather Perkins, for identifying our music as coming from a parallel universe and for calling our Prof. Oddfellow work "amazing ... you will not be disappointed."
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#prof. oddfellow #clockwork music #neons gone mad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The spectre."  From The Wonders of Optics by Fulgence Marion, 1869.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spectre #vintage magic #magic
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Looks comfortable though probably a bit drafty.  From Birmingham-Southern's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #vintage man #man #outdoor furniture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #living dead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #outer space #faces in things #illustration #aliens #spacemen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Man and Abnormal Man, 1905.  Via Nemfrog.
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#vintage illustration #breathing #kymographion
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #imp #bottled ghost #specimen bottle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Yeshiva's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #midnight oil #ex libris #bookplate #scholar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #costume party #masquerade #Scylla and Charybdis #party
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #swept away #pig #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Taking a cow's pulse.  From Toronto's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #veterinarian
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#halloween #spooky #occult #october #jack-o'-lantern #vintage photo #darkness #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #cats #yearbook #musical animals #glee club
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Updated: the four horsemen of the apocalypse.  From Nebelspalter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #end of the world #apocalypse #four horsemen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Goat worship in Birmingham-Southern's 1964 yearbook.

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#religion #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #idol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Short Stories for Little Folks by Catherine Bryce, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Chaps in Chaps," a brief spoof of the western by British(?) parodist Richard Mallett:

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Two days later Noble Chunk was in the very heart of Arizoklahoma, that strange spur of land that lies like a stick of macaroni along the side and between the middle of the back around behind above Texas on top of the panhandle of Wyoming like some brooding monster.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nursery Rhymes by Margaret Tarrant, 1918.  Via TheFugitiveSaint.
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#vintage illustration #humpty dumpty #egg
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June 19, 2021

Old News (permalink)
"A rattlesnake and a prayer."  From Together, 1970.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #prayer #snake #vintage headline #headline #rattlesnake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #priest #explosion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #animals #sweeping #toys
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From The Magician Annual, 1908.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #dreaming #elves
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1979 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #devil #death #skeleton #earth #soccer
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Duke's 1988 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #cathedral #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Here's how there is actually "fellowship" in the atmosphere.  From My Brother and I by Peter Ainslie, 1911.
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#nature #fellowship
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cholera is repulsed by the smell of city sewers.  From The Wasp, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #disease #sewer #cholera
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The mysterious lady in white of the Andes."  From UFO Review, 1982.
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#vintage illustration #angel #ufo #lady in white #extraterrestrial #space alien
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #death #bubbles #idol #illustration #saint death #death worhsip
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
For reasons of your own, see How to Be Your Own Cat.
From the University of Cincinnati's 1913 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smiling cat #smiling animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #clock #fishing #art #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #on top of the world
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #unbelievable #fashion #vintage fashion #map #strange map #i never #photographers on tumblr #map costume #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the University of Washington's 1923 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 1926 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #finis #lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
Luckily, we dream of ancient manuscripts all the time.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
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#dream #symbol #manuscript
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June 18, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #will-o'-the-wisp #psychic #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Learning better how to sell non-things."  By Colin Peters.  From Coraddi, 1991.
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#angel #immaterial
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
How true those words are, even today: "Never trust scholarly magazines."  From Dark Shadows episide 475.

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#dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The devil and the miser."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #devil #grotesque #miser #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #mad scientist #genetic engineering #tiny dog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Time of sleeping: On all occasions."  From Oxford Seminary's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #rip van winkle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sleepy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #onion #mustache
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #satyr #vintage yearbook #yearbook #goat legs #lyre
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Clarion Call, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #occult #human magnetism #new age #spiritual energy #chakras
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic Catalogue by William Doerflinger.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1926.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wisdom #ignorance #tarot strength
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
When wall murals read over your shoulder.  From Santa Clara's 1977 yearbook.

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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1908.
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#god #adam #first man #creation of adam #creation #vintage illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #gnome #elf #vintage camera #camera #photographer #art #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #pig #hanging on
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The handwriting on the wall says, 'Night must fall.'"  From The Film Daily, 1937.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Arrest the Bishop? by Winifred Peck:

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He had a prominent chin and equally pronounced convictions. Prejudices bristled about him, like his wiry hair, in all sorts of unexpected places.

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"And if Soames comes round that corner send him off to fetch an umbrella for you, or a mitre or an elephant or a Family Bible, or anything you like, but don't let him see me up here!"
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[Bonus: A dedication in the ablative!]

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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1972.
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June 17, 2021

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to comedian Bob Mortimer's funny cat names.  From Toike Oike, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If you encounter a level 1 priest today, may he be just the parson you needed.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Psyche and the sphinx."  From Psyche by Louis Couperus and illustrated by Dion Clayton Calthrop, 1908.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We never forget our best teachers.  From Park College's 1979 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #queen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #tiny house
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Imps of darkness."  From Oxford Seminary's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #imp #silhouette #darkness #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May the bearded teddy bear of prosperity shake coins from the horn of plenty upon you.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #money #bear #teddy bear #cornucopia #prosperity
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
On a hunch, we held this image to a mirror, and sure enough, they're all vampires.  From Lambuth's 1965 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wish Fairy and Dewy Dear by Alice Ross Colver, 1922.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #writer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Clarion Call, 1960.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Open for prayer."  From UNC's 1969 yearbook.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#vintage photo #prayer #vintage yearbook #yearbook #power of prayer #prayer meeting #sign
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #owl #silhouette #satyr #clown #hybrid #goat legged #tightrope #l b #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I'm glad you could think of it--because my mind went blank after I asked the question."  From Santa Clara's 1977 yearbook.

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#serpent #snake #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cobra
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zauberlinda, The Wise Witch by Eva Katherine Clapp and illustrated by Mabel Tibbits, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #frog #musical animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The official portraits of the grand demon and seven lesser demons are in keeping with the techniques explained in How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.  From Transylvania College's 1923 yearbook.
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#demon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From For Men Only, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #devil
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #horse #castle #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #jousting
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
A cemetery for pet rocks.  We could find no evidence that this cemetery is still in operation.  From The Varsity, March 24, 1976.
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#cemetery #pet rock
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June 16, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pilot Bails Out, written and illustrated by Don Blanding, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #halo #seeing stars #1940s #illustration
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Neons Gone Mad is honored to debut a song by Hollywood star Milla Jovovich, in collaboration with Swedish synthesist Glaciære.  Our haunted grandfather clock and spirit radio make it a sextet.  (Hear Neons Gone Mad on Bandcamp.)

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Milla Jovovich's original demo is here.
Neons Gone Mad's clockwork version is available free, here.
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #video #neons gone mad #milla jovovich
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The ducks' defender."  From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1979.
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#vintage illustration #hand #hallucination #surreal #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"An advertisement about an advertisement."  From The Film Daily, 1933.
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#vintage ad #pegasus #flying horse #winged horse #vintage hollywood #hollywood #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Six types of space aliens.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1984.
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Unknown, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #genie #djinn #arabian nights
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #alcohol #tiny man #drunk
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hiram's 1897 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #headless #yearbook #1890s #decapitated #faceless #no face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Giant polar bear ghosts threaten airships.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #airship #polar bear #north pole #dirigible #blimp
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #gun #suicide #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Journal of the Imagination in Language Learning, 1994.
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#vintage illustration #reading #brainstorm
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emerson's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #goat #jesus #illustration #christian cross #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #train #locomotive #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Clothes to fit one's activities.  From Nebelspalter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #people who look like their dogs #pet walker
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A wonky spire from Wake Forest's 1965 yearbook.

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#church #vintage photo #reflection #vintage yearbook #yearbook #melting building #window #spire #melting architecture
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage photo #artist #mental impression
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The basic scientific method hasn't changed over the decades.  From College of the Albemarle's 1987 yearbook.

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#science #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From N by E by Rockwell Kent, 1930.
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June 15, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #jester
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Buster Keaton in The Gold Ghost.  From The Film Daily, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The second labor of Hercules.  From Stories of Classic Myths Retold From St. Nicholas, 1909.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"On Sundays in England, the richest peple wear their oldest clothes and the country becomes sad and dark."  From How To Be An Alien by George Mikes and illustrated by Nicholas Bentley.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1944.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We restored for you this ornate border from the Ellendale yearbook of 1912.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1926.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"99 44/100% Pure Dope."  From Earlham's 1915 yearbook.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
Why the earth wobbles.  From Northeastern's 1922 yearbook.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #earth #dream #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #illustration #pipe dream #why the earth wobbles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A baby and a rattler.  From Nebelspalter, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #rattlesnake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"It's all a matter of carrots."  From Santa Clara's 1977 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #carrot #1970s #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Purple Parrot, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bird #eyeglasses
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #incense #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #sibyl
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From A Country Way of Death, by R. A. Bentley:

***
Outside, the chill wind howled for admittance but getting no answer, settled for puffing the curtains into the room.

***
"Though possibly another skeleton in a different cupboard."

[This made me wonder if "another ___ in a different ___"--or some specific version of that--was a time-honored prototype, which in turn raised the question of whether the Buzzcocks' "Another Music in a Different Kitchen" was, unknown to me, a deliberate variation on a cliche. I found no evidence of any of this, however, so both this item and the Buzzcocks item seem just to be their own free-standing "things."]
***

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A fashion prediction for next season -- pompoms for men's trousers will come back.  From Rinkitink in Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1916.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Xanadu: Dragon Slayer II strategy handbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #snow #winter #skiing
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June 14, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The third time's a charm for the glitch gremlins in Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia:
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is why we're disinclined to view dust under a microscope.  From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn handbook.
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#vintage illustration #monster #dust
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor Skinner and illustrated by Blanche Fischer Wright, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #wolf #three little pigs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Air was filled with the smell of flowers."  From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht and illustrated by Herman Rosse, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #mask #crying #seasonal allergies
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Old News (permalink)
"Monsters still stalking science."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1982.
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#monster #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #monster #giant #eyes on stalks
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twilight Land by Howard Pyle, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #fairy tale #dragon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1978 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #costume #alien #spaceman #alien mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #seeing double #alcohol #drunk #hallucination #triplets
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #halo #ex libris #bookplate
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A sword through the head.  From Tulane's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #king #knight #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A sculpture in the library hallway, from Duke's yearbook of 1933.

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#beard #knowledge #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sculpture #duke university
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #antlers #horned man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Centenary's College 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #runner #athletics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #demon #egg #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #spilled ink #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scandinavian Legends and Folk Tales by Gwyn Jones, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #horses
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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
The way this is worded, you're sort of bullied into saying "yes" instead of forming an answer that is honest and true to your path of life.  From Cabarrus' 1972 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1908.
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#religion #vintage illustration #piano
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June 13, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Heroic Deeds of Beowulf, illustrated by Walter Ferro.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Little elves dancing in the moonlight."  From Fables From Afar by Catherine Bryce, 1910.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #mask #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Taylor's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #antlers #moose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Strely, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #blood #bathtub #blood bath
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #snail #cricket
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"Let me go then in deep oblivion to a sleepy corner in the light of sky. —Rose Lesniak."  From Northeastern's 1976 yearbook.
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#sun #silhouette #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ocean
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #skeleton #war
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An illustration by Max Brockenbrough for the College of William and Mary's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1907
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Oeil de la Police, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #question mark #guillotine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We wonder if this class is offered by correspondence.  From UNC's 1969 yearbook.

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#silhouette #occult #vintage yearbook #dancing #night photography #yearbook #fire ceremony
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Uncle Wiggily and Mother Goose by Roger Garis and illustrated by Edward Bloomfield, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #vintage car #car
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Nazarene's 1959 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #bull costume #cow costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucers International, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #earth #outer space #astronaut #flying saucer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Berea's 1940 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician #tuba
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas Book of Plays and Operettas, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #elves #men in green
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Blessings in Disguise, by Alec Guinness:

[I don't encounter "bed-fluff" in print very often, but it showed up twice in the first fifteen pages of Alec Guinness's memoir, Blessings in Disguise. What's interesting is that while the first instance is a literal one (the child Guinness borrows a household implement from his mother to clean the bed-fluff out from under the bed of an elderly lady he visits downstairs), the second one is figurative!]

To [Sybil Thorndike's] statements, though, about the greatness of Ibsen--how he cleared the air, got rid of all the bed-fluff, gave women their proper due, and so on--I could only nod in a way which I hoped looked intelligent.

[As you can see, it's not clear whether Thorndike actually used the word "bed-fluff," or that was simply Guinness's "go to" word when paraphrasing.]

[Meanwhile,* a little later in the book]

'So sorry I was late,' [Dame Flora Robson] said. 'My train is from Brighton. And at Victoria Station a plank fell on my head. Is my hat in good shape?' I reassured her: I wasn't quite sure what the shape should be.

[*Because, of course, all pages in a book exist simultaneously.]

***
[sbj: a record from the Guinness book
The Alec Guinness book, that is]

Tyrone Guthrie was ... quite the tallest enfant terrible to be found in the English-speaking world--standing six foot four in his socks.
***

[Alec Guinness speaks of Edith Sitwell's "arched eyebrows like faint pencil lines querying the tiny eyes."]

[Guinness speaks of some actors at the makeup table "not knowing their elbow from a crimson-lake liner."
Until I looked it up, I thought he was referring to some kind of inland passenger vessel!]

***
[sbj: the office cutup
Alec Guinness, on first meeting his friend Ernie Kovacs]

The first day Ernie and I worked together he deliberately got his head stuck in the clapper-board...
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Persecution.  From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #being watched #persecution #surveillance
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June 12, 2021

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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#music video #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1967.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#vintage illustration #prayer #furnace
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #question mark #treasure chest
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Every tree has within it a guardian spirit called a dryad."  From Homespun Stories by Clara Denton, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #spirit #tree #apple tree #apple #dryad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #vintage hollywood #tiny woman #hat #hollywood #sombrero
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #animal attack #giant bird #1940s
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Old News (permalink)
From Navy News, 1967.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
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#divination #crystal ball #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1978 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #conehead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An amphibious airplane.  From Nebelspalter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #airplane #amphibious
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #cat #lion #teddy bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #skeleton #dance of death #violin #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #mysterious #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #skull #serpent #snake #poison #alarm clock #vintage headline #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Montreat-Anderson's 1966 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #makeup #face paint
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #vulture
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1915 yearbook of the State Female Normal School, Farmville, Va.

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #circus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, 1993.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #helicopter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington College's 1987 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #pegasus #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flying horse #winged horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Myths From Many Lands by Eva March Tappan, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #animals #prince of the forest #kintaro
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1875.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #india #animal fight
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June 11, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Here's how to tell when a preface isn't a preface.  From King Longbeard, Or Annals of the Golden Dreamland by Barrington MacGregor and illustrated by Charles Robinson, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #preface
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's another precursor to the film A Cry in the Dark (1988).  A dingo took her baby in this image from Ukrainian Folk Tales, illustrated by J. Hnizdovsky.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #folk tale
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Old News (permalink)
"Am I in love / Maybe next time."  From Cash Box, 1954.
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#vintage ad #in love #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The thing about samurai swords -- you always know exactly when you need one.  From Collier's, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #mad scientist #sword
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Old News (permalink)
"My last wonderful days."  From Together, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #sun #sunset #vintage headline #headline
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The Right Word (permalink)
In this scene from Dark Shadows episode 987, we suspect that each scientist left out at least one word in his line.  When you hear these lines spoken, as opposed to reading the subtitles, it’s even more confusing … especially because the actors’ faces are so deadpan, and they don’t stumble but smoothly leave out words.  They look as though they mean this nonsense and seem to understand each other.  Cue the eerie music, indeed!
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#dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I'll tell the cat."  From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #rumpus #commotion #hubbub #fracas #hullabaloo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State's 1906 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #goat man #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #goat headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #elephant #animals #party #party animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"From a friend."  From Swarthmore's 1983 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #statue #poodle
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #owl #gary barwin #bird costume #bird in the hand #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #earth
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1949 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bathtub #bath tub
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #skull
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's some well-deserved acknowledgment for you.
From Duke's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #acknowledgment #bow
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if more candles should do this.  From Duke's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #candle #rooster #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1938.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #elf #clown #book
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From A Strange Manor of Death, by R. A. Bentley:

***
"Eccentric," agreed Bernard. "He wore the most extraordinary waistcoats."

[I think "He wore the most extraordinary waistcoats" would make a great epitaph.]

***
[Putting the "flapping" in flappers!]

"That was then. Things have changed. Look at all that flapping, or whatever it is they do."
"I should hardly think Charlotte's a flapper, dear."

[Flappers will henceforth be funnier to me, with this association established.]
***
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Old News (permalink)
"Alien creature guides writer."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1996.
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#writing #vintage headline #alien #headline
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June 10, 2021

Strange Dreams (permalink)
May no magicians work their treachery in your dreams tonight.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#magician #dream #symbol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #rocking horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I'll be right down."  From The Film Daily, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #levitation #weightless
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The altar of light and the birds of darkness."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #good and evil #birds #light and dark #illustration #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #lion #tiny man #injured animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler's 1959 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #zodiac #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From a NASA Technical Report of 1971.
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#vintage illustration #outer space #astronaut
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands by James William Buel, 1891.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#religion #vintage illustration #god
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #dove of peace #postage stamp #war and peace #illustration #peace dove #stabbed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #arabian nights #illustration #bowl #balanced
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1975 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #monster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Appalachian State's 1972 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#death #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Supernatural by Lionel Alexander Weatherly, 1891.  (Via TheFugitiveSaint.)
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #witch #witchcraft #occult #cauldron #supernatural
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Millikin's 1910 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #devil #cauldron #hell
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Teacher's College, Farmville, Virginia's 1932 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #curiosity
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background by Wayne Koestenbaum.
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#writing #tired #poem #gay and tired
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May poltergeists throw nothing your way today.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#poltergeist #vintage illustration
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June 9, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
How best to catch a ghost when you don't know its name, a bit of fortune telling, and a song about a fascinating night.
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#prof. oddfellow #fortune telling #video #penetralia #ghost hunting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #birds
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #constrictor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Bunny and Bear Book by Laura Rountree Smith, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #musical animal #fiddle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Home Plays by Cecil Henry Bullivant, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #mushroom people #costume #mushroom costume
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Rhode Island yearbook of 1903.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Sagrada Biblia, 1883.
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#vintage illustration #garden of eden #creation #god #adam and eve #eve
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #pig #vegetarian nightmare
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson's 1929 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #ex libris #bookplate
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Old News (permalink)
"The problem is impotency": a headline from Stoutonia, 1973.
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#vintage headline #impotency #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #big mouth #monster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This gargoyle's portrait is featured amongst the students in Salve Regina's 1978 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gargoyle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1987.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #alien #illustration #flying saucer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Weaver's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #marotte
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Support Assistants for Fire Emergencies, 1971.
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#vintage illustration #fire #candle #hand #flame #conbustion
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1987 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #piano #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pianist #smiling man
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1972.
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#vintage ad #madness #ad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From And Then I Wrote, by Jack Sharkey and Mel Buttorff:

***

"I didn't mean to barge in that way."
"I thought you barged in very nicely."

[Cf. Hugo Barneezles Reader (approx. from memory) "How dare you barge in here without knocking!" / "If we'd knocked, it wouldn't have been barging."]

***
"Nobody told me this was a private panic."

***
"But what about your undertaking customers?"
"They'll keep."
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #crow #rabbit
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June 8, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"We write because we have to, but knowing that there people out there who really latch on to what we're trying to do in such a favorable way is both gratifying and justifying" (Thomas M. Reid).
From Nebelspalter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #writing #crushed #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #reading #vision #cherubs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
I sure hope this helps today.  From the Wizardry 2 Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #mind stone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Treasure [bats] forever."  From Curse of the Dream Witch by Allan Stratton.
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#vintage illustration #bats
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Old News (permalink)
"Hovering mystery."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1971.
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#ufo #mystery #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #sea monster #horror
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you felt invisible in school.  From Asheville's 1979 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s #invisible man #face bandages
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An early and bold attempt to be one's own cat.  (The methods are now painless: see How to Be Your Own Cat.)  From Aurora, 1986.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #cat people #cat headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #immolation #on fire #burned alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Medusa's cat.  From Le Charivari, 1846.
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#vintage illustration #cat #medusa #snake hair
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kent State's 1980 yearbook.

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#halloween #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #flying machine #zeppelin #dirigible #giant bottle #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's heart plugging its ears is from Ohio State's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #heart #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #gallows #war #noose #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of New Hampshire's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death Sends for the Doctor, by George Bellairs:

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Plumtree was waiting beside the telephone, watching it in awe, as though it might explode or speak loud and oracularly at any moment.

***
Cromwell knew from the way Littlejohn smoked his pipe that the Superintendent was amused. It sagged in the corner of his mouth and, instead of puffing it, he gently blew wisps of smoke through the bowl.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We see a map in that inkblot.  From The Film Daily, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #inkblot #map #1940s #ink
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Legends of Japan by Hiroshi Naito and illustrated by Masahiko Nishino.
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#vintage illustration #japan
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June 7, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The History of The House That Jack Built by John Harris, 1800.
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#vintage illustration #cat #cat and mouse #rat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a teleporter, just in case.  From Wizardry Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #teleportation #teleporter
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Old News (permalink)
"Encounters 'too real to be a dream.'"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1989.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #vintage headline #alien #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Laughing their heads off.  From Nebelspalter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #big mouth #laughter #1930s #decapitated
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #happiness #hermit #1920s #illustration #mountain retreat #hideaway #cave dweller #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'Eat the cloth about the bed,' said Mosquito."  From Talking Woman by Jean Kenyon Mackenzie, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #mosquito #insects #bugs #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #world #demon #father time #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #hybrid #human headed #man dog #dog man #dog men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Alexpander sees all but knows nothing.  From the University of the South's 1924 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#magician #mind reader #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #hourglass #father time #scythe #cat and mouse #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gargoyle #duke university
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dido, the Dancing Bear by Richard Barnum and illustrated by C. P. Bluemlein, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #sweet tooth #monkey #bear #window display #bakery #shop window
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Now what about the next 50 years."  From Atlantic Christian's 1953 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cross section #brain #the future
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cupid's Cyclopedia by Oliver Herford, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #angel #cherub #cupid
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Only Funny If ... (permalink)
From Salem's 1932 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wasp, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #ear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Apponequet's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #crown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Knock on Wood by Carole Potter.
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#black cat #superstition #knock on wood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #crab #dancing animal #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fable #falling #mayhem #aesop #donkey
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June 6, 2021

Strange Dreams (permalink)
Our secrets of installing Imhotep Dream Incubation Sancuaries in the home: it's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #dream incubation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Astounding, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #starry night #spire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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Old News (permalink)
It's no longer politically correct to refer to "colored" UFOs, as it sounds pejorative.  "UFOs of color" is more acceptable.  Of course, with "little green men" and "Project Bluebook," it's hard to escape the color line.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1971.

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#ufo #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The moving finger writes, and having writ ..."  From Unknown magazine, July 1940.
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#vintage illustration #skull #occult #finger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A shark carrot from Nebelspalter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #carrot #shark
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Through the mists of time, this cat is fully aware of you.  From the 1976 Ole Miss yearbook.
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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
The music of a dice roll: a single tone followed by three ascending tones.  From a 1980 manual for a portable Backgammon game by Mattel.  See Astragalomancy: A Loaded Guide: Intriguing Readings of 21 Discrete Dice Throws.
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#vintage illustration #dice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #bear #flowers #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1907 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #theatre #comedy and tragedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"In a monstrous foundry, where the wind a thousand forges blows."  From The Wonderful Fairies of the Sun by Ernest Vincent Wright and illustrated by Cora M. Norman, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #elves #wind
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1900 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hazing #hooded figure
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #walking stick #hearing voices #clairaudience #carved head #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's people who look like animals are from Nebelspalter, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #people who look like animals
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Anderson College's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook #airplane #skyscraper
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
At the Sharp Flats, in Salem, Virginia, the clocks simultaneously show 10:40 and 11:40.  As constant investigators of such phemonena, we diagnosed the problem at a glance.  Note how the treble clef on the clockface is backwards.  It's been said that clinging to backward symbols keeps society from moving forward without the weight of baggage from the past.
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#temporal anomaly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Symptomatic of the fever."  From North Carolina Wesleyan's 1987 yearbook.

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#halloween #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #vampire #dracula
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Don't Cry for Me, Hot Pastrami, by Sharon Kahn:

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"Do you all swear not to tell, not ever to tell what I'm going to tell you, so help you God?"
This is too much. "I'm not swearing to God on this, Essie Sue."
"Okay, Ruby, so we'll swear on my copy of the Jewish Forward--it has a national circulation. Good enough for you?"
***
From Up Front, by Victor Spinetti:

***
'You behave yourself when you're in Rome,' said Alan Webb, the old character actor. 'You be careful what you do here. We're representing Great Britain. Don't forget that.' The next day, he came to work in rather a state. He'd been found drunk wandering around Rome with no trousers on.'
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #tree of life
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June 5, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's griffin grieving over the loss of a postage stamp is from The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
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#vintage illustration #griffin #crying animal #postage stamp
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Read too little or too much.  Whichever will leave you most confused or asleep."  From Lighted Pathway, 1981.
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#vintage illustration #advice #bad advice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
He's supposed to be evil, but we suspect he's merely misunderstood.  From the Wizardry: Bane Of The Cosmic Forge Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #rat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Geography and tears."  From the rare Twilight Fairy Tales by Maud Booth, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #globe #earth #geography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1982.
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#vintage illustration #mask #faces #clothesline #out to dry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Enchanted House by Edith Harrison and illustrated by Frederick Richardson, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #rabbits #bunnies #book #musician #dancing rabbit #dancing bunny
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #alcohol #tiny men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington College's 1950 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man #homunculus #bottled ghost #specimen bottle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1917.
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Old News (permalink)
From Bluffton's 1922 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #ex libris #bookplate #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #duck #tiny man #writer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Maryland's School of Medicine yearbook of 1901.

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#vintage illustration #dragon #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Compare to this alien fairy we featured earlier.
From Northern UFO News, 1987.  
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Old News (permalink)
"I am surrounded by a mixture of fragrances like 'My Sin.'"  From Salem's 1955 yearbook.
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#perfume #vintage headline #fragrance
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Japanese plums, from The Practical Nurseryman, 1895.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From National-Louis' 1967 yearbook.

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#wizard #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wasp, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #devil #fire #hell #hell mouth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #skull face
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1911 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #living dead #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #operation #tables turned #autopsy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1927.
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#political cartoon #vintage illustration
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June 4, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Nice to have the author's and illustrator's signatures on the front cover.  From A Manual of Cheirosophy by Edward Heron Allen and illustrated by Rosamund Brunel Horsley, 1885.
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#vintage book #book #palmistry #handwriting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1844.
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#vintage illustration #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The sad clown of football being here to stay.  From Olivet Nazarene's 1978 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #sad clown
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #alcohol #waiter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Appalachian's 1977 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #giant hat #hat
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Satan is your father."  From Eastern Nazarene's 1974 yearbook.
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#religion #satan #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #vintage car #car #udders #milking
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I don't care anyway."  From Judson's 1988 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #sign #i don't care #anne ramsey
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The ghost who loved cooking.  From Spellbound, 1977.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)  Spooky cocktail recipes: Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #hallowe'en #chef #cooking with ghosts #ghost chef #ghost cook #ghost food
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Old News (permalink)
"Idiots ruin it for everyone."  From The Gateway, 1980.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Granny's Wonderful Chair and Its Tales of Fairy Times by Frances Browne and illustrated by Katharine Pyle, 1916.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #elf #fairy tale
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Curse of Braeburn Castle, by Karen Baugh Menuhin:

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"Ay, and a good afternoon to yerself and yon wee doggie, sir." A different attendant came by my table, a Scot by the sound of his accent. He sported a beard and kilt and very smart he looked too.

[Possibly Scottish, yes. Though personally I would reserve judgment until he produces bagpipes.]

***
[A self-directed-zinger of a rhetorical question answered!]

"Don't be ridiculous, Swift, who would be stupid enough to be down here in this weather?"
"Us," came the tart riposte.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kissing Covens by Colin Watson, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #witch #medusa #snake hair #gordon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #eyes on stalks
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mitchell's 1969 yearbook.

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#umbrella #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #bad luck
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Maryland's School of Medicine yearbook of 1901.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #tiny man #teeth #dentist #tooth #giant tooth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wish Fairy and Dewy Dear by Alice Ross Colver, 1922.
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June 3, 2021

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
We connected a lightning rod to the spirit radio and haunted grandfather clock. Can you hear the difference?
Neons Gone Mad's clockwork remix is available here: https://profoddfellow.bandcamp.com/tr...
Original version of Elexive's "Valley Santa": youtu.be/TA7Hro7OYpc
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #video #penetralia #clockwork music #neons gone mad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The monkeys admired it greatly."  From King Longbeard, Or Annals of the Golden Dreamland by Barrington MacGregor and illustrated by Charles Robinson, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #severed head #monkey #mustache
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"They've always classed paranoia as a mental illness.  But it isn't!  There's no lack of contact with reality--on the contrary, the paranoid is directly related to reality.  He's a perfect empiricist.  Not cluttered with ethical and moral-cultural inhibitions.  The paranoid sees things as they really are; he's actually the only sane man." —Philip K. Dick, "Null-O," The Philip K. Dick Reader
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May any vampire you meet today crave not your type.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Here's what it looks like when your strangler offers you a way to save yourself by inviting you to "Call on your false god!"  From Dark Shadows episode 999.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Every Soul is a Circus by Vachel Lindsay, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #horse #circus #flying horse #winged horse
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Lon Chaney.  From Wid's Daily, 1920.
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#vintage photo #shadow #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The preaching fox."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #demon
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1963 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trees #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The black eagle found the river fairy seated upon a poplar leaf."  From American Fairy Tales by Garrett Brown and illustrated by John Edward O'Keeffe, 1911.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The fine tradition of glowing trees in yearbooks is upheld by Fayetteville State in 1971.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #light and darkness #glowing #glowing tree
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #demon #anthropomorphism #hell #burned alive #boxer #boxing horse #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #antlers #illustration #hat #horned man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Florida Agricultural College's 1901 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #witch #ornate frame #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Saturday Evening Quill, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #starry night #firefly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Where theory becomes practice."  From National-Louis' 1971 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#halloween #vintage photo #sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fantastic Adventures, 1950.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blue Planet Project: Alien Technical Research - 25 (undated).
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June 2, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)

Jesus/Buddha photo courtesy of Chris Conway.

A Contested Prophecy, Literally True?

Skeptics cite Jesus’ promise that “this generation” will see the end of days as a failed prophecy, yet — extraordinarily — in the light of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, we can see Jesus’ words as very literally true.  We’ll touch upon this, as we’ve not seen the insight discussed elsewhere.  Mark 13:24-30 quotes Jesus as predicting that the sun and moon will be darkened, the stars of heaven will fall, the powers of heaven will be shaken, the Son of Man will appear in the clouds with great glory, angels will gather from the four winds, and — crucially — “this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.”  How can such a statement be literally true?  It was literally true for each individual of that generation upon his or her death, for what Jesus described is parallel to the death experience detailed in the Tibetan Book of the Dead.  Skeptics don’t seem to see the individual trees for the forest.  One at a time, human beings face the end of the[ir] world upon death.  Light is extinguished and the soul navigates the turbulent “afterlife” environment of the Bardo, featuring terrifying winds and deafening thunders and deities and angels in the clouds.  
Jesus makes an analogy four verses later of a man leaving his house and taking a far journey, and that, too, is parallel to the first day in the afterlife as described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead.  (“Thou wilt see thine own home, the attendants, relatives, and the corpse, and think, ‘Now I am dead!  What shall I do?' and being oppressed with intense sorrow, the thought will occur to thee, ‘O what would I not give to possess a body!’  And so thinking, thou wilt be wandering hither and thither seeking a body” [Book II, Part I]).  
Indeed, Jesus’ prophecy of the future can be understood as fulfilling itself for one person at a time, upon death.  As the Tibetan Book of the Dead explains, when one’s earthly nervous system shuts off, the light of the sun, moon, and stars are no longer visible; only the “astral light” would be detectable to the deceased’s etheric being.  In Book II, Part I of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, we learn that in the post-death Bardo realm, “The fierce wind of karma, terrific and hard to endure, will drive thee onwards from behind, in dreadful gusts.  Fear it not.  That is thine own illusion. Thick awesome darkness will appear in front of thee continually.”  
Yet “the embodiment of all that is wise, merciful and loving” will appear “as clouds on the surface on the heavens or a rainbow on the surface of the clouds.”  It is the father of heaven (whom the Tibetans call the Manifester of Phenomena, who has dominion over worldly existence) appearing in the center of the sky, seated in a lion-throne (Book I, Part II), attended by angelic Bodhisattvas shining amidst a rainbow halo of light.  Those not versed in comparative religion might be surprised to learn that Tibetans acknowledge that one might see Jesus in the afterlife.  The Tibetan Book of the Dead explains that the “Great Body of Union ... will appear in whatever shape will benefit all beings whomsoever,” meaning that the godhead will take the form most appealing to the individual, such as Jesus to a Christian.  
As a final note, concerning the overlap between Tibetan Buddhism and Christianity, Philip K. Dick explored at length in his Exegesis the “perpendicular path” to salvation that Christianity offers, and this same “Great Straight Upward Path" to enlightenment is made explicit in the Tibetan Book of the Dead.  (Dick, conversant with both philosophies, preferred Christianity’s.)  Both feature the peculiar doctrine of instantaneous spiritual emancipation without further suffering, and this doctrine underlies the entire Tibetan Book of the Dead.  “Faith is the first step on the Secret Pathway,” explains a footnote in the Tibetan text, “Then comes Illumination; and with it, Certainty; and, when that Goal is won, Emancipation.”  As in the ancient Egyptian symbolism of the sun-god Ra, it is the “hook” (as on a fishing line) of the “rays of grace” that catch and drag one perpendicularly from the dangers of the Bardo (Book I, Part II).
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #cat #balancing act
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of the admirable approach to joke illustrations in Count Draculations by Charles Keller and illustrated by Edward Frascino.
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#vintage illustration #witch #black cat #cat #hallowe'en #vacuum #talking cat #unplugged #electric broom
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Old News (permalink)
I, too, will let you know if I do anything outstanding.  From Together, 1970.
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#vintage headline #headline #outstanding
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm Reich and illustrated by William Steig.
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#vintage illustration #roller coaster #coney island
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
"Everybody's congratulating everybody else!"  From The Film Daily, 1935.
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#handshake #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"What macabre horror haunted this play ... a horror that caused the townspeople to double-bar their doors at dusk?"  From Weird Tales, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #castle #darkness #horror #night
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Old News (permalink)
Nice impressionistic effect from scanning a photocopy of newsprint.  "Driver yields to visiting UFO."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1975.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Morris Harvey's 1957 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage men #men #sign #1950s #keep off the grass
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"None of life's strings can last."  From Park College's 1973 yearbook.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #clouds #sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skull #lantern #diogenes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Green Pipes by Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #tree #running #alone
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #long neck #bird-like #bird head #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1903 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #devil #serpent #snake #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1903
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1944.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mask
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Maryland's School of Medicine yearbook of 1901.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #wizard #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
To be perfectly honest, the risk of this is precisely why we avoid attending funerals.  From L'Oeil de la Police, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #coffin #living dead #revenge #funeral
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The grand tradition of glowing trees in old yearbooks.  From Centenary's 1971 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #bridge #illustration #light in darkness #glowing tree #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Bear at Work and Play by Frances Margaret Fox, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animals #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Tug of war with stolen door-keys.  From St. Nicholas, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elves #tug of war #key
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's like they say, you'll know when you need it.  From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn strategy handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magick #serpent #occult #amulet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #cinderella
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the out-of-print The Return of the Dragon by Jane Zaring and illustrated by Polly Broman.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dragon #boat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale
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Old News (permalink)
"Vampire admits killing for blood."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1974.
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#vampire #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It is coach and horses into hell."  From Frightful Plays by Charles Brooks, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Roses and Other Plants Seeds, 1888.  (Thanks for the tip from Clawmarks.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #spider #faces in things #flowers #happy and sad #roses
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From They Do Not Die by Charles A. Hall, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #life after death #halo #stars #immortality
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #invisible man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An ad (our restoration, as per usual) from Nebelspalter, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #skull #insects #insecticide #bugs #ad
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Old Wounds, by Nora Kelly:

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The ironing board presided, giraffe-legged, over baskets of stiff, wrinkled clothes that came in from the line.

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[Flapping dept.]

Her mind was flapping like a broken fanbelt.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Night must not come."  An illustration by Boris Dolgov.  From Weird Tales, 1943.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spooky #horror #night
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"We're feeling quite empty."  From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.
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#anthropomorphism #emptiness #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fifty Gates of Understanding by Aleta Blanche Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Even the Demons Submit by Loren Johns and James Krabill, 2006.
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#demon #exorcism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hiram's 1956 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#mad scientist #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #alchemist #vintage man #1950s #chemist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sphinx
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